Today something interesting happened…
Maya was pinning sawyer in to a corner of the living room and taking his ball he was playing with. Usually he lets her take things of his but not always and sometimes he also wants things she has so it goes both ways. This time he was trying to play with the blow up ball to kick it around and maya was pinning him in and grabbing the ball away. It reminded me of a situation where an animal is pinned in and had to fend for his life or be eaten. That’s the kind of desperation I saw in sawyer. He knew he couldn’t out run her. So she took the ball and he had a fit and started screaming. He ran right after her… I got close to them trying not to intervene (per the RIE methods) to let them work it out. At one point I put my hand between sawyers mouth and Maya just in case he tried to bite her but instead he grabbed her hair and yanked a big chunk out. Granted she does have very fine hair, but I was shocked when I saw it steadily float down to hit the ground!
I guess you can say she had it coming. Maybe she won’t torment him as easily next time? I always wonder if this method is the best approach. My intuition is that it is, but we won’t know until we see it play out over the next few months. …even then it’s hard to know because they’re at Junko’s house and it’s hard to observe how things are panning out.
You can see the yellow ball in the foreground in the second picture.
